I wish! Afraid we are stuck with that for the rest of our natural lives. There is no known cure. At least tinnitus isn't anything that is physically harmful. It's just a 'pain in the butt'. Mine seems to come and go. Normally, I don't even notice it. Right now, that the subject has come up, it's so loud that it almost masks the noise from the air conditioning and computer ventilation fans, (there's a lot of computers in my room here).

Went to have an audiology exam last month, thinking it was time to get hearing aids. I've always had a loss of hearing in one of my ears, and as several have mentioned, in noisy restaurants, I just cannot hear enough to understand what the person across the table is saying to me. That is so frustrating! The cause of my partial hearing loss is due to misdiagnosed juvenile ear infections. Silly doctors removed my tonsils instead of treating the ear infection. The loss wasn't bad enough to keep my out of the Navy, but I wasn't going to be a sonarman either.

The result of my audiology exam is that I don't need hearing aids . . . yet. They would let me get them, if I really struggled with conversations in noisy environments, but it's not to the point where I really need them. Don't really think I can connect this to my military service. I'll be on my own dime, or medicare's dime when the time comes. By then, I figure technology will be so much better. Some times, it pays to wait.

Besides, one of the main reasons for getting out on the open road on a bicycle is to get away from noise. Other than birds and stream flows, I cannot think of why I'd want to enhance my hearing abilities when pedaling along.